http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/551840

if you sign up for free you can hear the interview of Dr. Adler (scattered minds fame)

He talks about the stupidity of Primary doctors (not exactly in those terms but ya know what I mean)

and he talks about comorbid conditions/co occuring/co traveling conditions and the difference from symptoms and other stuff ;)

... ... the stupidity of Primary doctors

The mind is our most notable property
- and yet we don't have a formal agreement on its precise nature

- and as we divert attention away from the most important issue to man into movie stars running for president on 50's platform

- mental disorders rip our society apart - though not just the sizeable set of problems categorized as 'mental'

- the scope is more all-encompassing than that,
and as one would expect since the mind is all that knows.

Mental characters have intimate connection also to many (maybe all) of the relatively recent so-called 'Western disorders' of the periphery
~eg~
asthma,Type II diabetes

- unsatisfied mental needs leading also to that other broad class of problem
- addictive behaviours
- all addictive behaviours

regardless of whether they're drug or substance related -

- all addictive behaviours

sexual addictions, 'need for speed', gambling, shopping

- all addictive behaviours

... ... ... all to appease the seemingly insatiable hunger of our mind -
- we're crying out for mental stimulation in a profoundly dull world.


I'm firmly laying all of our problems at our own incapacity to see how important it is for us to see how our own minds work -

- and thereby failing to see how our societal environment has more deletirious effect on our health than any endogenous malfunction (~eg~ gene with wonky leg).

Genes with wonky legs (or other more classical endogenous malfunctions) are of little relative importance when aligned against the mind
at least under context of correcting unhappy into healthy be - ing.